Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-06
NEWS AND NOTES.

Detroit has now 200 miles of telephon
wire under ground.
A grandniece of Mozart is dependen
upon charity in Vienna.
| II is said that 0,000 farms have beer
opened up in Kansas during the past year.
A "jubilee drink" is being advertised
in London A Jubilee coffin has prevlousl,
made lis appearance.
A piece of ground on Broadway, New
! York 25xlOO feet, has been sold for $3.50, 2OO-a
the rate of 81, 100000 per acre.
| a San Francisco school teacher made
all his pupils strip to the skin to find who haC
stolen little girls breastpin.
The slave trade fiourishes openly on the
Madagascar coast. The slaves are captured IN
the interior of the Island by French agents.
A New York sea captain has just sueC
his third wife, to obtain possession of ''his sec
ond wifes shawl nightgown, and SIS in casl ,
The number of slaves in Brazil has
been reduced from 100000 in 1873 to 100000
none of whom are under sixteen or over sixty
years of age.
The big bridge between New York and
Brooklyn is being tre8ted to a new coat OF
paint, and it will take about twenty tons of
paint to COVERT.
The Interstate commerce law has not
checked the demand for new locomotives. The
railroad companies are ordering them faster
than the manufacturers can turn them out.
Two young ladies recently graduated
from the Medical College of Indiana have taken
out licenses to practice in 1ndianOp is. One is
DR.. Mary A. Sprinkler and the otner is DR.. Laura
z. Boyd.
Prince Leopold of Germany and Prince
Esterhazy of Austria are in this country, and
Will spend some time in seeing its sights before
returning home. They are making a tour OF
the world.
Mrs. Isabella Beecner Hooker advo-
Gates the reorganization Of the New York po-
lice force, with woman as superintendent
and the appointment of an equal number of
men and women in the ranks.
Russell Cox of Holderness, n. H., who
is ninety years o, age, is suffering from Sc
we're attack of whooping cough. His mother,
who died recently, had the whooping cough
when She was lOl years of age
A gentleman who has been in the land
from whence the white elephants are sup
posed to come. Gays that in 400 years only
twenty two animals desc wing this distinction
have been captured. The first white Ell plant
ever seen oUt.ide of its native land was eXhib-
ted 25J years ago in Holland.
Behring'S have been made in Indiana
which show that in many parts of the state nat
ural gas is obLainable in guam lily sufficient for
gether probable that the sub,eranean supply /,
as widely diffused as the surface supply, which
is practically ineAhaustible.
A Partisan has invented a system Of
transmission by which 1t Is possible to tran anti
dispatch thand along single wire and
II print it at the staut station in stenOgraphic
characters with rapidly exceeding that of
any Geographic apparatus now in use. NJ. Cas-
sagnes is the name of this French Edison.
Near Dolores. Argentine Republic, there
was recently a shower of stones. A few mo-
ments after the plains were covered with the
DO les of geese, storks and other birds and ami
mails killed by the stones. One inhsDitant Of
the place carried forty eight head of geese
hOms in the space of half an hour. Great loss
was sustained Many animals were killed an
crops and trees were destroyed.
The st. James Gazette says: Concern
ing the figures of the entire Jewish population
of the globe there is a difference of opinion
nuaI'' declares that France contains 100000;
Germany, 562, 900, of whom SO, 900 inhabit Alsace
and Lorraine: Austria-Hungary, / GA, 900, of
whom 68S,000 are in Galicia and 63S, 600 in Hun
gary; Italy. 10000; Netherlands, 81, COO; Rou
mania, 265,000; Russia, 2552 900 (Russian Po
land, 1858 ,000); Turkey. To-, goo; Belgium, 5000;
Bulgaria, 10000; Switzerland, 1909; Denmark,
1000; spain, 1900; Gibraltar, 1900; Greece, 5000;
Servia, $500 Sweden, 800. In Asia there
are 100000 of the race; Turkey in Asia has 1885,,
900; $4,000 are In Pale. tine, $1,000 are in Rus
1900 In India and 1000 in China. In Africa, 5000
Jews live in Egypt, 55 900 in unis, 80 900 In AL
geTia, 60 O01 in Morocco, 5000 in Tripods and
20, 600 In AbYssInia. America contains 100000
among her citizens, and 90 600 more are distri-
buted in other sections of the transatlantic
continent, while only 12,000 are scattered
t rough Oceanica. In short, the entire total of
the Hebrew race on the surface of the globe is
estimated at 100000.